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Darwin's spectre : evolutionary biology in the modern world
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Darwin's spectre : evolutionary biology in the modern world

Author: Michael R Rose
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"In Darwin's Spectre, Michael Rose provides the general reader with an introduction to the theory of evolution: its beginning with Darwin, its key concepts, and how it may affect us in the future. First comes a brief biographical sketch of Darwin. Next, Rose gives a primer on the three most important concepts in evolutionary theory - variation, selection, and adaptation. With a firm grasp of these concepts, the  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Michael R Rose
ISBN: 0691012172 9780691012179
OCLC Number: 38438615
Description: x, 233 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Darwin: The reluctant revolutionary --
Heredity: The problem variation --
Selection: Nature red in tooth and claw --
Evolution: The tree of life --
Agriculture: Malthus postponed --
Medicine: Dying of ignorance --
Eugenics: Promethean Darwinism --
Origins: From baboons to archbishops --
Psyche: Darwinism meets film noir --
Society: Ideology as biology --
Religion: The spectre haunting.
Responsibility: Michael R. Rose.
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Provides general readers with an introduction to the theory of evolution: its beginning with Darwin, its key concepts, and how it may affect us in the future. There is a brief biographical sketch of  Read more...

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Ironically, Rose evokes the image of a hovering Darwinian ghost in this altogether rational, absorbing account of the past 150 years of Darwinism.... He makes an excellent case for the importance of Read more...

 
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